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And without controversy, great is the secret of holiness: HE WHO WAS MANIFESTED
IN THE FLESH, was justified in spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the Gentiles,
was believed on in the world, was received up into HIS GLORY.

As you can see for yourself there has been blatant forgery and deception carried out by the
translators of YEHOVAH's Word -- deception perpetrated in order to promulgate the LIE of a
"pre-existent" savior who was God manifested in the flesh! Don't fall for it!

8/. Hebrew 1:8-9. Another scripture that has deceived many in the Churches of God who quite of-
ten use these verses to "prove" that Yeshua was pre-existing being, is that of Hebrews 1:8-9. Some
use these verses to claim Yeshua was an angel, while others use it to claim Yeshua was God. No-
tice what the King James Version says --

But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteous-
ness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; there-
fore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

The way these verses have been translated in the King James Version would have those
with a shallow knowledge of the Bible believe that Yeshua is here called "God"! However, a little
research into the Bible will reveal that Hebrews 1:8-9 is a DIRECT QUOTE from Psalm 45:6-7
in the Old Testament. Notice how it is rendered in The Holy Name Bible:

Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; whereby the people fall under
Thee. Thy throne, O Elohim, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of Thy kingdom is a right
sceptre. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore Elohim, Thy Elohim,
hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.

The Lexicon In Veteris Testamenti Libros, by Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner,
shows that the word "Elohim" was used to REPLACE the Name of YEHOVAH (p. 51). This is
corroborated in A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by Brown, Driver and
Briggs, which says that Elohim was inserted "often by editorial change for an original YHVH" p.
44). The Name of "YEHOVAH" was replaced by the PAGAN title "Elohim" in Psalm 45:6-7.

Unfortunately, this is not the only translation problem encountered in these verses. Notice
the author's comments in The Anchor Bible, Psalms I --

The eternal and everlasting God has enthroned you! The scepter of your kingdom must be a
scepter of equity. You must love justice and hate iniquity, because God, your God, has
anointed you.

has enthroned you. Vocalizing kisse' ka, a denominative piel from kisse', "throne." The
only evidence for this proposal is its manifest good sense, its concordance with the
Ugaritic-Hebrew proclivity for coining such verbs (Biblica 44 [1963], 204f.) and, nega-
tively, the unsatisfactory nature of the numberless solutions which have been proffered on
behalf of this crux interpretum.

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